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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RS6000s & Suns
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Date: 12 Sep 90 07:58:56 GMT
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In article <38848@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude)) writes:
>1. BSD support 
>
>   We grab a lot of stuff off the net requiring the BSD C environment.
>   How easy is it to port BSD C-language applications? 
>   Does the BSD environment variable really do the trick?

I'll let others with more BSD experience answer many of your questions;
I'll stick with ones with more straight-forward answers.  

In general, porting things from the net (say from comp.sources.unix)
is pretty straightforward.  A good number of things port in an
hour or less...my personal time limit for most mildly-interesting things.
BUT ... the trick described in some documentation with the BSD environment
variable doesn't seem to work at this point.  There's an excellent writeup
on porting code from BSD to AIX 3 that's supplied in /usr/lpp/bos on the
distributed system.

>2. Network Services
>
>   Any problems with the provided versions of:
>    sendmail, named (Hopefully, these are modern versions with MX records?)

These have MX, MB, MR and MG support.

>    NFS, YP
>    net daemons: inetd, lpd, rshd, etc. 

We've had good luck with these (I haven't used YP (sorry, NIS) extensively).

>   Can you network boot and run run diskless (and swap via NFS)?

No.

>   Does an X11 R4 server exist for all the displays?

Not at this time.

>   Dose the IBM X11 software come with Motif?

Yes.


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